The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-10

Wehr- Verein met in the basement OF
GrIef's Hall on West Lake Street, not
far from the Haymarket, guards being
stationed at the front and rear of the
hall to prevent interference or the in
trusion of unwelcome visitors. The
day before, at 10 o'clock in the
morning, the second company of the
Lehr und Wehr.Verein had met at
Bohemian Hall, on Emma Street.
George Engel and Adolph Fischer be-
ing present.
Engel submitted plan to the effect
/ that whenever it came to q conflict be-
| tween the police and the northwestern
groups" bombs should be thrown into
| the various police stations throughout
| the city while the rifiemen of the Lehr
und Wehr- Verein should sta tion them
selves at various distances and shoot
down the police as they came running
out. Then it should proceed in that
| way until We came to the heart OF the
city,"
The heart of the city was where the
main conflict was to come, of course,
and il was the hope and calculation of
the conspirators that by the time the
central part of the city was reached the
police force would be pretty well wiped
| out. This testimony was given by Wal
Ter. another informer who was in the
secret of the whole affair.
THE REVENGE" CIRCULAR.
at the Monday night meeting in
Grief's Hall EngeI's plan was adopted.
At this meeting Spies famous "re :enge"
circular was handed around. 1t callet
upon all workingmen to arm them
selves; that some OF their comrades had
been killed that day, and that murder
would likely be committed upon you
tomorrow" This circular was printed
both in English and German, and, being
scattered broadcast throughout the
city, helped greatly to infame the pub
lie mind. There had been conflict be-
tween the police and a mob at McCor-
mick reaper works that day and al
most anything was looked for. Spies
had been the orator at the meeting at
McCormick's but ran away as soon as
he saw there was to be trouble. He
revenge" circular and had it printed.
SIGNAL FOB REVOLUTION.
At the suggestion of FISCHER the signal
for the attacks upon the police was to
be the German word "Ruhe." That
whenever "Ruhe" appeared in the Ar-
bcitcr-Zeitung. the organ of the Anar-
chists, the revolution should at once be
begun. The duplication of that word
in the paper was signal to the mem
bers of the armed sections OF the various
groups" thai they were at once to arm
themselves and repair to the specified
meeting piaces, and If a conflict had
really taken place between the police
and the wOrkingmen, they were to at
tack the police and the stations with
rifles aud bombs.
The Haymarket meeting was ar
ranged for at the secret conclaYe of
Monday night. Fischer, who was III
Spies employ, Spies being the editor of
the ArbeitGr-Zeitung fixed the time and
place. "Ruhe." the signal word as
agreed upon. was therefore published
Tuesday afternoon and the time for the
conflict had arrived and use was to be
made of Lingg's bombs, which he had
been so industrIously and assiduously
making. Schnaubelt, the thrower of the
bomb, suggested that the plan be com
to comrades living in other
cities, $50 that the revolution should
commence in other cities besides Chic
ago."
THE HAYMARKET MEETING.
The testimony of Waller and Seliger
goes to show that trouble was expected
at the Haymarket meeting, and that was
the reason the meeting was not held in
the square proper, which is several
hundred feet in width, but in Desplaines
street, nearly 100 feet north OF the
square, at the corner of Cranes Alley.
AS mere strategical point no better
place could possibly have been selected. !
The street IS narrow and dark and the
crowd had the police practically at its
mercy. Had the police not closed up
after the explosion of the bomb and re-
turned the fire which poured into them
from all sides, no man could have fore
seen the outcome. Fischer, in a speech
at the meeting Monday night, said the
square was a 'mousetrap,"
and that was why he preferred that the
meeting should be held where 1t was.
One witness named Gilmer, whose |
testimony the defense failed to snake,
though it made great efforts TO do so,
swore that he saw Spies light the fuse
of the bomb, and that Schnaubelt then |
threw it into the ranks of the police. |
The bomb was thrown from the mouth |
of Cranes Alley, behind where The |
wagon was stationed upon which the |
speakers stood. The defense went so |
far as to admit that a match was lit In |
the alley at the time and place design
ated by Gilmer, but that it was by a !
laborer who was lighting his pipe. The |
match was struck just after some one |
had shouted the warning, Here come
the police"
SPIES AND sCHWAB.
Malvern NJ. Thompson, an uncontra-
1icted witness, saw Spies and schwab |
together in c ane's Alley. where they
we're engaged in close and earnest con-
Fersation. He heard the words police
and pistols" and also heard Spies ask
DO you think one is enough ?" Then
The two men walked south on Des-
olaines to Randolph and west on Ran
iolph to Halsted Street, some blocks
away, where they disappeared into the
-hickest of a crowd of men, some
in number. After remain
ng in this crowd for a few minutes
Spies and Schwab emerged ard walked
back again to the meeting. Thompson
hoard Schwah cav Now If thew comp